Investigating the process of improving the student entrepreneurship ecosystem by using the living lab method (Case study of Nova project)

Document Type : Review Paper

Authors

1 shahid beheshti university

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

3 MSc Student of Information Technology Management, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

4 PhD in Science and Technology Policy, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran

Abstract

Objective: Today, the establishment and development of student entrepreneurship ecosystem as one of the most important underlying factors in turning students into future entrepreneurs, has been at the forefront of universities and higher education institutions. Despite the importance of this concept in the field of entrepreneurship in the country, less research in our country has addressed this issue.
Method: First, through interviews with experts and using the method of content analysis, components and dimensions of the student entrepreneurship ecosystem are identified, then using the living lab strategy to develop creative ideas in this area.
Finding: First, the main components and dimensions of a student entrepreneurship ecosystem were extracted and then, as a case study, the Nova event at Shahid Beheshti University as a startup event in the form of a living lab that includes four phases of vision, initial design, evaluation, publication and approval was examined.
Conclusion: In this event, the ideas of students and faculty members of the university became operational-applied, the ideas became operational from the mental state. In this event, an attempt was made to create a platform for competition in a healthy environment among the participants, as well as to provide them with the opportunity to implement the plan and enter the market in this field. Also, networking and communication between participants and activists in the cultural and social fields, growth and development of students' creativity and innovation in these fields, turning socio-cultural ideas into a product, financial and spiritual support of ideas, achieving effective solutions to cultural and social problems in the field of student entrepreneurship is one of the main goals of holding this event. Efforts were also made to improve the situation of student entrepreneurship at Beheshti University by strengthening the student entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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